A Garland For Linda (Paul McCartney + 9 Other Composers) 14 February 2000 (EMI CDC 5 56961 2)

A Garland For Linda
(UK 2000)

  1. "Silence and Music" (Ralph Vaughan Williams) – 4:50 From A Garland for the Queen in 1953, the year of her coronation.
  2. "Prayer for the Healing of the Sick" (John Tavener) – 8:53 Featuring John Tavener. From text by Mother Thekla and taken from the Russian Orthodox Service of Holy Unction.
  3. "Water Lilies" (Judith Bingham) – 7:35 Featuring Judith Bingham. Written in March 1999, drawing on the composer's experience of swimming.
  4. "Musica Dei Donum" (John Rutter) – 5:36 Featuring John Rutter. Taken from a solo chorus text from 1594.
  5. "The Doorway of the Dawn" (David Matthews) – 4:53 Featuring David Matthews. Write about Linda's qualities & feelings.
  6. "Nova" (Paul McCartney) – 6:28 Featuring Paul McCartney. Written from November 1998 to May 1999.
  7. "I Dream'd" (Roxanna Panufnik) – 3:30 Featuring Roxanna Panufnik. Arrangement for a cappella chorus of a work.
  8. "Farewell" (Michael Berkeley) – 3:30 Featuring Michael Berkeley. Taken from fragments of literary ideas from Milton, Shakespeare and Elizabeth Speller.
  9. "The Flight of the Swan" (Giles Swayne) – 6:16 Featuring Giles Swayne. Inspired by the death of James Manson in 1996 from brain cancer.
  10. "A Good-Night" (Richard Rodney Bennett) – 2:51 Featuring Richard Rodney Bennett. From a poem by Francis Quarles.
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